Advanced EFT Processes for Releasing Identity Beliefs and Conflicts

Do your clients struggle with who they are and how they feel about themselves?

In your work with clients, and from your own experience, you will know that our identity beliefs are powerful for good or bad (and resistant to change).

Identity beliefs are those ideas, thoughts and feelings that we have about ourselves, they can rule our lives.

If your client says: “I am not good enough” and means it, their thoughts, feelings and actions will be in keeping with that belief.

If your clients says: “I am good enough” their thoughts feelings and actions will be quite different.

If your client says: “I hate myself”, they will struggle more than someone who can say: “I like myself”.

Identity beliefs are persistent and resistant

You may notice your clients tell you their identity beliefs when they say:

“I am not good enough”

“I am a failure”

“There is something wrong with me“

“I am always in the wrong”

“Nobody loves me“

…

These identity beliefs are pervasive in their experience.

If you think “I am not good enough” that belief will be true in the morning, afternoon and evening. Wherever and whenever you are it will be true.

If you think “I’m not good enough” that belief will influence what you can think feel and do - all day, every day.

The relationship between different parts of ourselves can also cause inner struggle and stress.

If you have heard your clients saying:

“I hate myself“

“I give myself a hard time”

“I can’t forgive myself“

...

They are telling you about their identity conflicts - stress between different parts of ourselves. These conflicts can be at the root of a lot of client distress and misery.

If you have ever tried to change identity beliefs and conflicts using tapping you may have found that it can be quite difficult.

Because of the way they form, identity beliefs and conflicts are resistant to change.

What is the Identity Healing?

Identity Healing ® is an integrated set of processes developed by Andy Hunt for dissolving identity beliefs and resolving identity conflicts.It combines Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).In ‘Classic EFT’ practitioners search for specific events in childhood where identity beliefs formed. Then they use tapping to resolve those memories and release the beliefs associated with them.Unfortunately, identity beliefs and conflicts are often formed early in life so those associated memories can be difficult to find.Rather than identifying and working with specific memories, Identity Healing takes a different approach.Identity beliefs form when a constellation of feelings, beliefs and behaviours are ‘split off’ from ourselves at times of stress in our early lives.These split-off younger parts of ourselves are sometimes called sub-personalities. They encapsulate all the feelings, thoughts and behaviours that were present at the time of the split.The stress and distress from identity beliefs in our adult lives is bound up in those younger sub-personalities.If you have ever been in stressful situations and felt like you were like a young person in an adult’s body then you have experienced this. A young sub-personality was managing your adult experience.Identity Healing focuses on working with those sub-personalities.It soothes their stress, gives them the resources they need, then re-integrates them into our adult selves.After Identity Healing you can be in those situations as a resourceful adult rather than as a struggling child.There are just five steps to the Identity Healing process:

Identify the sub-personality - the part of us that split off and struggles.

Externalise that part so that it is easy to tap for that sub-personality.

Soothe that part using tapping to relieve its distress.

Resource the sub-personality so that it has what it needs (but didn’t get at that time).

Re-integrate the de-stressed and resourced sub-personality into the adult self.

Identity Healing Training

The Identity Healing training is a practical and thorough introduction to using these processes to help your clients and yourself.

“I have found Andy Hunt’s training in Identity Healing a highly valuable, inspiring and enlightening learning experience, delivered by Andy with integrity, compassion, wisdom and gentle humour.Having used this process with many clients since completing the course a few weeks ago, I am very impressed with the simplicity, elegance and effectiveness of Identity Healing approach, even with the most complex and challenging issues. I saw some surprising and significant shifts for a number of people with whom we had achieved only limited progress in previous weeks and months using psychotherapy, classic EFT, EMDR and Matrix Reimprinting.I found Identity Healing especially useful with clients who are burdened by shame and guilt and are struggling to feel any compassion for themselves, and for those in a chronic state of self-sabotage or stuckness.”Masha Bennett, Psychotherapist, September 2014

This is an advanced training for EFT practitioners only.

The course is practical and participative, using demonstrations, discussion and supervised pair practice of the techniques.

Disclaimer: The Identity Healing processes have produced excellent clinical results but is not yet formally validated scientific technique and thus must be considered experimental in nature with no guaranteed outcome in any individual. Practitioners must therefore take complete responsibility for their own use of the Identity Healing processes.